But you have no other top level football on - 32 of the most popular clubs - the infrastructure in place - surely a huge boost every year for tourism to the country... plus establishing Qatar beyond its oil dependency

They could sell the rights for a fortune and well lets face it money is no object they could offer the clubs crazy money to take part... and lets face it clubs play a lot of friendlies in the winter break anyway so I'm sure with big bucks on the table they would be all over it.

I could actually see something like this happening - and personally I think it would be better than the actual world cup.

I'm confused. You propose this annual competition to take place in the summer or winter? The reason the WC is in the winter for 2022 is because it's almost hot enough to turn sand into glass there. Winter you say? No thanks. I fecking hate breaks from club football during the season and although you're proposing a club competition it would be no different than a AFCON or international break if it were held in the winter.

Terrible idea. Qatar should never have been awarded the WC anyway. Corruption beyond belief.

I'm confused. You propose this annual competition to take place in the summer or winter? The reason the WC is in the winter for 2022 is because it's almost hot enough to turn sand into glass there. Winter you say? No thanks. I fecking hate breaks from club football during the season and although you're proposing a club competition it would be no different than a AFCON or international break if it were held in the winter.

Terrible idea. Qatar should never have been awarded the WC anyway. Corruption beyond belief.

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winter - and I agree they should have never got the world cup but they have and they have a fek ton of cash and seem intent on making themselves more of a destination beyond oil revenues - which a big football tournament would do

Interrupting a domestic season to play glorified friendlies will never happen no matter how much money Qatar throw at it, people simply won't watch it. The ICC has shown that. Qatar doesn't have a domestic fanbase to fall back on and no-one is going to travel there to watch it. There's nothing there.

I still think the 2022 World Cup will be the end of FIFA as we know it and Qatar will be the villain. Either corruption is 'proven' and the WC is moved, or it is a huge failure and the football suffers as a whole. Qatar won't have a legacy at the end of either option.

I still think the 2022 World Cup will be the end of FIFA as we know it and Qatar will be the villain

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I think you are right, leaving corruption aside for the moment the disruption for three seasons, the one before, during and the one after the WC in 2022, to the European leagues will be phenomenal.
I'm not sure how many fans realise this, especially those who normally buy season tickets, the disruption will be serious. Extensions and curtailments to normal season periods will mean losses, even now many people may miss early season matches Aug/Sept because of annual holidays etc. this will be much worse, for three seasons.
Sometimes the 'conspiracy theorists' believed that was Blatter's original intention, in considering the Qatar venue for the WC, knowing it would have to be moved to winter and therefore 'ipso facto' to break the monopoly of European leagues, by destroying audience viewing options and hence TV revenue?